It WASN'T Sarcastic

 1/ THREAD: Trump's comments regarding injecting "disinfectants"(bleach and isopropyl alcohol) — as well as his suggestion of using a "tremendous light" or "ultraviolet light", were absolutely NOT sarcastic. Why?

2/ Look carefully at Trump yesterday:

• His #BodyLanguage was not sarcastic
• His tone of voice/vocal characteristics were not sarcastic
• His words were not sarcastic
• The micro-context in which he made the comments were not sarcastic (no one else was being sarcastic) 

3/ • The macro-context in which he made the comments was not sarcastic (the whole subject of this press briefing is the #Coronavirus Pandemic. Tens of thousands of people are dying, why would you be sarcastic?)

4/ Moreover, Trump said today in an Oval Office interview, that he was looking at a journalist. In the video above, we can see he was looking at #DrBirx and #BillBryan.

5/ #BillBryan is the acting assistant secretary of science and technology. He had just finished speaking about the above techniques to sterilize the virus on metal, tile, and other nonliving surfaces.

#BodyLanguageExpert #BodyLanguage #Disinfectant 

6/ Conclusion: All evidence proves the President was lying today when he said the comments he made yesterday were "sarcastic". They were not. They were sincere. He was suggesting these cleaners & light modalities as real therapy against the Coronavirus.

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Aaron Rupar

✔@atrupar

Replying to @atrupar

"The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs" -- Trump seems to suggests that injecting disinfectant inside people could be a treatment for the coronavirus

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5:19 PM - Apr 23, 2020

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